Summary of the discussion, 4th July 2019 In the news was the growing conflict between the people of Hong Kong (or, at least, many of them) and the Beijing government, in its early stages at the beginning of July. Beijing, led by its President Xi Jinping, appears to be attempting to undermine what many in…
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Primo Levi Centenary (part two)
Extracts from some of Levi’s other books: “The Periodic Table”, “If not now, when?” and “The Drowned and the Saved”. THE PERIODIC TABLE In this book Primo Levi takes some of the chemical elements as illustrations of people or situations he has known and experienced. The following are is a small selection of those portraits….
Primo Levi Centenary
July 31st was the centenary of the birth of Primo Levi in 1919. We read and discussed extracts from some of his writings- here from “If this is a Man”, his description of life in Auschwitz, and “The Truce” his liberation and journey home. IF THIS IS A MAN In 1943 Primo Levi joined an…
First Thursday, June 6th, 2019
We met on the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, which perhaps began the final phase of the Second World War- though it must always be remembered that the main burden of the struggle against Hitler’s Fascism was borne by the Soviet Union, which lost some thirteen million of their armed forces killed…
First Thursday, May 9th, 2019
Our first reading was Deuteronomy 7:1 to 9, where the people recently set free from slavery in Egypt are commanded to commit genocide on the inhabitants of Canaan, their new “Promised” Land. It was an injunction faithfully followed by Europeans, who similarly saw themselves as “God’s People”, when they invaded and settled in the Americas…
Good and Bad Religion
On Saturday, February 2nd, Rodney Ward led a Debate, based on Peter Vardy’s book of the same title
The Chapel congregation
Wymington Chapel has a congregation of about a dozen people, including a small number of children. We meet at 10.00 am on most Sunday mornings